What is MySQLi? What does it do?

What is MySQLi? What does it do?

MySQLi is improved version of MySQL. Before MySQLi we were using its old version MySQL and millions number of projects have been developed using PHP and MySQL and later PHP announce their ideas to deprecate MySQL extension in 2011. Officially MySQL has been removed from PHP 5.5

MySQLi database system is relaible for both small and large applications.

MySQLi is open source relational database management system which is used on web.

MySQL must not be used in new development anymore.

Old extension does not support Prepared Statements and improved version of MySQL (MySQLi) and PDO that support Prepared Statements are object oriented.

For security reasons, you must use Prepared Statements. Its very important for your web application security.

By using Prepared Statements, you can protect your application from SQL injection.

MySQLi support for multiple statements and enhance debugging capabilities.